Portland State Market Loves Peppers

So the last two Saturdays I’ve spent the morning at the Portland State Market enjoying all the peppers! I’ll keep things fairly short and let you check out the pictures I snapped on my now old school iPhone 4 (my iPhone 5 should be here shortly!!). And yes–I did manage to leave my D-SLR at home…two weeks in a row. I suck at this game. More pictures after the jump!

Portland State Market: Roasting Peppers

So after the roasting of the peppers, they put them into ziplock bags to sell. You may wonder why ziplocks–it’s to cause the steam to be trapped in the bag, essentially steaming off the charred skins. I will be posting a how-to later this week on how to process these peppers after you’ve purchased them.****UPDATE: Fire-Roasted Peppers How-To!

If you haven’t heard of ghost peppers, they are up there on the Scoville Scale as some of the hottest peppers in the world. They are also known as Naga Jolokia, ghost chile pepper, and ghost chile.

4 days agoby TheSpicyBeeLet’s pause for a moment as I would like to call out my main squeeze Ktams for really going above and beyond recently. *** A few weeks ago our fridge bit the big one at the young age of 4 yrs old. Distraught, we salvaged what we could from the fridge and began the stress inducing process of deciding whether we spend the money on a repair person coming out (that we had deduced would cost nearly as much as replacing the fridge) or coming up with about 1.5K to replace it. He came up with an option C which